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Israel: Make it go away
Strategy Page ^ | 5th September, 2010

Posted on 09/05/2010 8:07:53 PM PDT by shield

A UN report concludes that the Israeli/Egyptian blockade of Gaza, and similar restrictions in the West Bank, has reduced Palestinian GDP by 30 percent and caused an unemployment rate of over 30 percent. While the blockade has been eased considerably in the West Bank, because the Palestinian government there has helped contain Palestinian terror groups, such is not the case in Gaza, where numerous terror groups continue to try, and occasionally succeed, making attacks on Israel and Egypt. While the UN calls for lifting the blockade, the UN offers no guarantee that the Palestinian terrorist attacks will stop. Thus Israel and Egypt (and, to a lesser extent, Jordan for the West Bank) continue to enforce the blockade.

The Palestinian peace talks got tangled up in Arab-Iranian animosity as Fatah (West Bank) told accused the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of taking office via a fraudulent election (something many Iranians agree with). Ahmadinejad had accused Fatah leaders of being pawns of the U.S. and Israel for participating in another round of peace negotiations. Ahmadinejad may be a fraud in many respects, but he's correct in calling the peace talks a hoax. Mass media in Iran, and throughout the Arab (and most of the Moslem) world considers the destruction of Israel and the death, or expulsion, of all Jews in the Middle East, as the only acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Many non-Moslems in the West wish such attitudes would go away, but they won't, no matter how much Western diplomats suggest it to their Moslem counterparts. Meanwhile, Iran continues to supply Hamas with weapons and cash, causing Hamas rival Fatah no end of frustration.

The Hamas reaction to the Fatah-Israel peace talks is to call for more terrorist attacks against Israel. By activating sleeper cells in the West Bank, Hamas is exposing its agents there to arrest (or worse) by Fatah or Israeli police. What Hamas is afraid of is some kind of deal that will create a Palestinian state, involving Israel and Fatah jointly sending force in to Gaza to remove Hamas. Egyptian police and troops would also likely participate, if only to round up anti-Egyptian Islamic terrorists hiding out there.

Hamas sees these peace talks as an opportunity to radicalize more West Bank Palestinians against Fatah (which is corrupt, although also suitably behind destroying Israel and killing all Jews). Hamas advocates destroying Israel and killing all Jews sooner, rather than later. Such an approach carries risks (the Israelis fight back), but many Palestinians are opposed to peace talks with Israel, and Fatah has ordered its police to shut down any demonstrations by these people in the West Bank.

So far this year, there have been about 115 mortar shells and rockets fired into Israel from Gaza. There is supposed to be a ceasefire, but this Palestinians say this is the best they can do.

September 4, 2010: Israeli aircraft bombed a Hamas weapons smuggling tunnels in Gaza, killing one tunnel worker and wounding two others. This was in retaliation to the two attacks on Israelis in the West Bank in the last week. Hamas proudly took credit for the attacks, which left four Israelis dead and two wounded.


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1 posted on 09/05/2010 8:07:57 PM PDT by shield
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To: shield

The UN’s strategy is to twiddle its thumbs while Iran gets nukes.


2 posted on 09/05/2010 8:09:59 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: shield
How about we just make those 'occupied territories' disappear instead?

Just crank up the tanks and bulldozers and start shoving those people back into Syria, Jordan, and Egypt where they belong. Shoot anyone or anything that resists.

If the Iranians or Syrians start any crap nuke 'em.

3 posted on 09/05/2010 8:11:05 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: shield

Palestinians need to go back to their homelands of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where their Muslim brothers will give them the hospitality for which Islam is famous.


4 posted on 09/05/2010 8:11:22 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: shield

Unemployment among Hamas terrorists is 30%, and the UN thinks this is bad.


5 posted on 09/05/2010 8:24:41 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: shield

Could care less about a bunch of unelected idiots at the UN trying to create a taxing power in the world or a silly authority?Get the US out of the UN!


6 posted on 09/05/2010 8:37:11 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: shield
A UN report concludes that the Israeli/Egyptian blockade of Gaza, and similar restrictions in the West Bank, has reduced Palestinian GDP by 30 percent and caused an unemployment rate of over 30 percent.

It also increased Israeli survival rates by 30 percent.

7 posted on 09/05/2010 8:48:51 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Most "have nots" are not "can nots". Most are "will nots".)
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